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Antony Thrower & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Boy, 5, dies two days after sister, 10, and parents killed as they tried to flee Kyiv

The little brother of a schoolgirl shot dead alongside her parents by Russian invaders has also died, it has been reported.

Young Semyon was left in critical care in Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital for three days after the family came under fire as they attempted to flee the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Anton Kudrin, wife Svetlana Zapadynskaya, and their ten-year-old daughter Polina were instantly killed by Putin's army, the Mirror reports.

Only Semyon and their eldest daughter Sofia survived the assault.

However, in the latest tragedy to emerge from the horrors of Ukraine, Semyon has now also lost his life, according to the Telegraph.

Critically ill Sofia, 13, is unconscious and currently has no idea her whole family was murdered.

A poignant picture of a relative at the bedside of Semyon, who was on a ventilator, was released earlier this week.

Pink-haired, Harry Potter-mad Polina was in her final year of primary school when she was killed.

Polina was killed by Russian troops alongside her mother and father in their car. (Facebook)

A picture of the smiling schoolgirl was shared by deputy mayor of Kyiv, Vladimir Bondarenko.

He said: "Her name was Polina. She studied in the 4th grade of school in Kyiv. Her and her parents were shot by Russian DRG."

Yesterday a heart-breaking image showing the cost of war emerged from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, showing a devastated father weeping over the body of his teenage son.

The dad, who was known only as Serhii, cradled his son Iliya's head as he bent over the stretcher set up at a maternity unit, which was covered by a blood-soaked sheet.

The boy had arrived at the hospital moments earlier in the back of a car, with both legs having been ripped apart by a Russian shell.

The Black Sea city hospital had been turned into a makeshift hospital to treat civilian victims of Russian shelling, as fighting continues in Ukraine amid Russia ’s invasion.

Mariupol, the main port of eastern Ukraine, has been surrounded under heavy bombardment with no water or power.

More than 2,000 Ukrainian civilians, including more than a dozen children, have so far been killed in the invasion.

More than one million people have fled the war-torn country as Russian troops continue the illegal assault on their peaceful neighbour.

Earlier this week an interpreter covering Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's address to the European Parliament broke down as he detailed the death of several children.

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